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Bronislaw Kaloszinski - Philadelphia - MIA???
« on: Thursday 09 March 17 12:16 GMT (UK) »
I am searching for the death record of Bronislaw Kaloszinski.

Born 16 February 1893 in Poland.

Married Pelagia "Blanche" Tomaszewski in 1916 in Philadelphia.

"Blacnche" Kaloszinski remarries John Fred Hasenfus in 1921 in Philadelphia.

Bronislaw appears in the WWI draft registrations but I can not find if he was inducted or not.

A long-standing family story is that a member of family went to Europe during WWI and never returned home.  I have not had luck in determining if this was Bronislaw Kaloszinski.

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Re: Bronislaw Kaloszinski - Philadelphia - MIA???
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 09 March 17 12:38 GMT (UK) »
Bronislaw Kolposinski - 1893 - burial 1919 - Burial Place - Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Oakland Cemetery. Philadelphia.

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Re: Bronislaw Kaloszinski - Philadelphia - MIA???
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 09 March 17 13:40 GMT (UK) »
Looks like he died in Camden, New Jersey. 

This looks like it could be Pelagia back home with her parents in 1920, but listed as single - https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFYR-2CP  Perhaps the granddaughter listed was her & Bronislaw's daughter.

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Re: Bronislaw Kaloszinski - Philadelphia - MIA???
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 11 March 17 12:55 GMT (UK) »
I was in touch with Oakland Cemetery in Philadelphia and they confirm they have the remains of Bronislaw Kaloszinski.  He was killed in an industrial accident in 1919 in Camden, New Jersey and returned to Philadelphia for burial. He was buried in the "singles" plot and is the only person in the grave.

His young widow, Pelagia, remarried in 1921 to John Fred Hasenfus.  It appears that she begins to go by the name of "Blanche" instead of Pelagia.  The couple had two children - Florence in 1923 and Violet Teresa in 1925.

John Fred Hasenfus died in 1947 and was buried in East Cedar Hills Cemetery in Philadelphia.  I cannot find a death record for Blanche Hasenfus / Pelagia Hasenfus.  I an not sure if she remarried.


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Re: Bronislaw Kaloszinski - Philadelphia - MIA???
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 15 March 17 23:08 GMT (UK) »
If you want to find what became of Pelagia/Blanche, you may have to do some digging.

Here is John and Blanche Hasenfus in the 1940 census, with daughters Florence and Violet: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9MY-35H?mode=g&cc=2000219.

The 1930 census has Blanche as a naturalized citizen. Since she remarried in 1921, she likely got her naturalization through marriage to an American citizen. I couldn't find a naturalization for her in the FamilySearch.org Eastern Pennsylvania Naturalizations (where a record would logically be), so that seems to confirm her getting it through marriage.

You might look on Ancestry for a Pennsylvania death certificate (certificates up to 1963, I think, are on Ancestry) for Pelagia/Blanche under the various combinations of her names (including alternate spellings in English of the Polish original).

Daughters Florence and Violet are not in any of the Pennsylvania marriage records on FamilySearch.com (there are three or four separate databases for Pennsylvania marriages). They may have married after the period covered by the databases--1950 was the latest cutoff. The Register of Wills for Philadelphia County may have records if they married in Pennsylvania. There is also the possibility that the daughters married in New Jersey, which is only across the Delaware River.

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Re: Bronislaw Kaloszinski - Philadelphia - MIA???
« Reply #5 on: Thursday 16 March 17 00:07 GMT (UK) »

  I cannot find a death record for Blanche Hasenfus / Pelagia Hasenfus.  I an not sure if she remarried.

Blanche remarried and lived to be 96, she died in 1995.

SSDI: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JY9S-S3B

obit snippets: http://www.rootschat.com/links/01jpb/

Daily News OCR text obit at bottom: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/178341763/

Inquirer OCR text obit at bottom: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/187178675/

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Re: Bronislaw Kaloszinski - Philadelphia - MIA???
« Reply #6 on: Thursday 16 March 17 11:12 GMT (UK) »
Thank you RJ137!


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Re: Bronislaw Kaloszinski - Philadelphia - MIA???
« Reply #7 on: Thursday 16 March 17 11:52 GMT (UK) »
I was in touch with Oakland Cemetery in Philadelphia and they confirm they have the remains of Bronislaw Kaloszinski.  He was killed in an industrial accident in 1919 in Camden, New Jersey and returned to Philadelphia for burial. He was buried in the "singles" plot and is the only person in the grave.

His young widow, Pelagia, remarried in 1921 to John Fred Hasenfus.  It appears that she begins to go by the name of "Blanche" instead of Pelagia.  The couple had two children - Florence in 1923 and Violet Teresa in 1925.

I'm still trying to track down her first daughter Blanche Kalkoszinski (born 1918 in Philadelphia).  She appears in the 1920 US Census but seems to vanish.  I have not located a death record so I am assuming that she may have been missed or changed her name.

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Re: Bronislaw Kaloszinski - Philadelphia - MIA???
« Reply #8 on: Thursday 16 March 17 16:56 GMT (UK) »
I'm still trying to track down her first daughter Blanche Kalkoszinski (born 1918 in Philadelphia).  She appears in the 1920 US Census but seems to vanish.  I have not located a death record so I am assuming that she may have been missed or changed her name.

She changed her name.  In the links posted to Blanche's obit, the obit mentions 3 daughters. The 2 you mentioned from the 1920 census and a 3rd daughter Eleanor Fedele. Eleanor & Blanche are the same.

SSDI: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JY7Z-BJH

Obit snippets April 19/20 : http://www.rootschat.com/links/01jpl/

Daily News OCR text obit at bottom: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/184549602/

Inquirer OCR text obit at bottom: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/174879497/

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Marriage 1938

License Number    687428: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JJ56-ZW5

License Number    687428:  https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JV9S-MXX

1940 census: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KQXW-CNX


Henry F. Fedele: https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=135852600

Eleanor S. Fedele:  https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=135852634